Prairie Central defeats PTHS Monday

With plenty of offense coming from the tandem of Kiana Coomber and Laura Crane, Prairie Central’s varsity girls’ basketball team handily defeated Pontiac Township High School 45-32 Monday night.

The junior varsity game was another matter, with Prairie Central winning a heated contest that featured double overtime and one player scoring half the team’s 50 points.

In the varsity match-up, PTHS took a first-quarter lead, 11 to 9, but then fell behind the rest of the game. Prairie Central was up by only four points at the half, 23 to 19, but extended the lead throughout the third quarter to 32 to 25, before closing it out by adding 13 more points in the final quarter to Pontiac’s seven points.

Coomber drained seven baskets and tossed in one free throw for her 15 points, while Crane had four buckets and two free throws.

Gabby Weber added eight points and Emily Shiflett added four for the Hawks.

For the Indians, Kaela Hodges scored 14 points on five baskets and four free throws, while Ashley Harfst added six points, including a three-pointer and one free throw.

Rounding out scoring for PTHS were Kelsey Walsberg with five and Rachael Fearman with four points.

In the JV game, the scores stayed pretty even throughout the entire contest, with PC eventually coming out ahead, 50 to 47.

Linnea Johnson had the hot hand for the Hawks, scoring 25 points in the game.

PTHS led 8 to 6 in the first quarter, but the game was tied 16-all at the half. In the third quarter, PTHS outscored PC 13 to 9, but the Hawks came back and outscored the Indians 14 to 10 to tie the game, 39 all. The Hawks scored 11 points total in the two overtimes, while the Indians put up another eight points.